The elections are upon us and as red blooded Americans, we must at least pretend we give a crap about which of the Tweedles running for office wins next week.  Running for President of the United States this year, we have no less than six men and women who will be filling the ballot...

World of Warcraft is the undisputed champion of massive multiplayer online (MMO) role playing games (RPG).  It’s got more subscribers and more publicity than any other MMORPG, plus it has more celebrities who’ll cop to being players than any other as well. Celebrities large...

Some of us are just loners.  Rebels.  Lobos.  Lone gunmen without a grassy knoll.  We prefer to be by ourselves.  Most of us who game will at least occasionally want to be alone.  I admit that I play Facebook games primarily because I don’t have to interact with anyone in...

Chances are, if you’re reading this, you know a lot of gamers.  You’re probably one yourself.  This means that you’re intimately familiar with the lame cliche’s and stupid misconceptions about us that are rampant.  Sadly, it’s not just old people (i.e....

Gaming evolves and is continuing to evolve.  Unlike nature, however, there’s no argument over where video games started, but there is still a creation myth.  And like it or not, games are changing how we, as humanity, connect and interact. Back Then Back in the 1940s, a couple of...

The gaming industry is a lot like Hollywood or Washington, D.C.  It’s full of characters, hangers-on, weird B-listers, and robber barons.  While everyone knows that movie stars are generally nutcases and politicians are liars by nature, we still revel in the Jerry Springer moments...

Gamers tell lies.  I know, it’s a shock to some of you, but it’s true.  Most of the time, they’re just little fibs and they’re usually told to make ourselves look cooler to our gamer friends.  I once had to explain this to a non-gamer (aka spouse) and told her...

Remember the good ol’ days of gaming when our Atari, first-gen Nintendo, and 8088Mhz PCs were just discovering color graphics and pixels were measured in the low triple digits?  Remember when you had to put quarters into machines at the bowling alley or the mall to play games? ...